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Leading Welsh recruitment and training provider, A4e Wales, is enjoying the success of helping its 200th person get back into the world of work through the Pathways to Work programme.

TheNewport A4e Pathways office is one of 10 across Wales, the whole network of offices have welcomed more than 800 customers through their doors and have already turned a quarter of the initial enquiries into jobs since the programme started in December.

The Pathways to Work programme was set up with the aim to get more people off incapacity benefit and into work through offering help, advice, training and support to help them into employment.

Operations manager, Julie Dyer, is pleased with the initial success of the scheme and hopes that the next four months are as successful.

She said: "It's figures like these which show that there are answers to the unemployment problem in the UK. Pathways to Work was set up in December 2007 and in the short space of time we've successfully helped people return to the work place and start earning again."

The programme is working with more than 30,000 economically inactive people on incapacity benefit and other related benefits over three years to get them back on their feet and into employment.

Julie said: "We are all about finding people a job that they can do, rather than focussing on what they can't do as a result of their health. Across the UK we hope to see more than 11, 500 people leave their benefits and enter work in the next three years as a result. Having a job is proven to improve people's quality of life and that is what we will be continuing to achieve."

The Pathways to Work initiative is a Department for Work and Pensions programme that is delivered by A4e Wales in 12 Welsh unitary authorities including Monmouthshire, Torfaen and Newport.

1:33pm Tuesday 6th May 2008

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